In
order to celebrate 2006 as the Year of Chemistry in Korea,
the Korean Chemical Society (KCS) initiated and sponsored
a global poster competition. Choon Do of the KCS collaborated
with IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) and Lida
Schoen of the Science Across the World program to launch the
poster competition, which culminated with a display during
the International Conference on Chemical Education (ICCE)
held in
Seoul in August 2006. Lida Schoen administered and managed
the competition with the support of the SAW network.

Chemistry
for Humanity
The theme for this poster competition was that of the conference:
Chemistry for Humanity. Therefore, students
who entered the contest were asked to visualize their ideas
on this general concept. The contest offered two age categories:
1013 and 1416. Altogether, 944 entries were received
from 32 different countries: 427 on paper and 517 electronic
files in various formats. From these entries, 13 posters from
the age 10-13 category and 41 posters from the age 1416
category were preselected.

Hsin-Wei
Wang (age 14), Taiwan.

There
were no separate categories for paper and electronic entries.
Criteria for the jury were as follows:

relevance
to the theme

clear
message, communication value

artistic
value: color, composition

universally
understandable, with little or no text

An
exhibition of these posters was on display at the 19th International
Conference on Chemical Education (ICCE) from 12 17 August
2006 in Seoul,Korea.Around 300 chemists from all over the
world were able to admire the selections (for more about the
ICCE, see conference report on p.32).

The
winners received certificates of recognition and electronic
devices such as hand-held game systems or MP3 players. All
winners and the 12 runners-up (see full text pdf) received
certificates of recognition, signed by Marianne Cutler, director
of the Science Across the World program, and Bryan Henry,
IUPAC president.